Lytone Enterprise Inc. just announced a novel liquid fertilizer aiming to improve crop growth and quality by providing natural trace elements.

The newly launched ferlizer, Azolyte, consisting of not only macro-nutrients such as phosphorous, potassium and magnesium, which have been proven necessary for plant growth, but also a series of multiple elemental nutrients, many of which can only be found in oceanic sediments. These trace elements are believed to be beneficial for plant physiology as well as growth.

Tarrytown, NY-based fresh fruit importer, Jac. Vandenberg, Inc. has announced that their Sunrays brand grapes will now be available year-round thanks to the addition of California to its lineup of growers.

Already sourced from Peru, Chile and Mexico, the addition of California gives retailers and consumers alike a year-round grape brand to trust and rely on.

Tarrytown, NY-based fresh fruit importer, Jac. Vandenberg Inc. has named winners in its first ever Sunrays Grapes Display Contest. The contest ran across various retailers under the Associated Wholesale Grocers Pearl River division from Jan. 13 through Feb. 6. Vandenberg encouraged stores to get creative with eye-catching, unique displays of its Sunrays grapes.

Vanguard International grape harvest and packing seasons are under way in Peru, Chile and South Africa. Peru and Chilean grape demand is particularly strong in Mexico, and increasing in Canada, the U.S., and Asia as California completes their “storage season.” Vanguard is seeing the first arrivals of grapes from their own ranches in Peru into various markets around the world and the results have been very positive season to date. Overall quality and condition have been very well received.

Oppy, a leading grower, marketer and distributor of fresh produce from around the world, announced a new grape program building on its exclusive partnership with Ocean Spray, the agricultural cooperative owned by more than 700 farmer families.

For more than a decade, private grape breeding programs have been releasing proprietary varieties and changing the face of the table grape industry. Andy Higgins, CEO of IFG, one of the leading privately-funded grape breeding programs, believes that trend will continue and consumers will start buying fresh grapes by variety, just as they do with fresh apples.